Once upon a time... There was a person named Bob. Bob! Yes that's right. Your name is Bob. In this story, you'll be playing as a character named Bob. Rhymes with "glob". Ok so per say, if I say "I am now diagnosed with leukemia" or "I am now dead", I really mean "Bob is now diagnosed with leukemia" and "Bob is now dead". Ok, got it? Ok good. Ok so to use this, you have to press the blue words to pick and choose the path you're
[[choosing]] <-- just like that, see? But don't press that, it's useless. Ok so now you know how this works. Do you wish to [[continue reading -> Continue! Duh.]] or maybe [[stop reading -> Stop reading. This is like super boring]].
[[why'd you press this ->Introduction]]. <-- press this though.Ok so. [[next -> What?]]Why would you want to stop reading? [[Click to go back ->Introduction]] I woke up in the middle of the night, confused. Not because of anything that happened, but as to why I woke up.
//crunch//.........//CRUNCH//.......
[[next -> I. HATE. DREAMS.]] I laid back down on my green and silver bed, willing myself to go back to sleep. I must've sat there for hours upon hours, until I finally fell into a deep sleep. F I N A L L Y.
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//Bob!//
I swung my head around in suprise. I was probably about to throw a punch at everyone near me but I was stopped by a man's voice that I probably recognised.
//Woah woah chill dude, I just wanna show you something I found!//
He shoved his clammy hands in my face, holding something that looked like what would you call it? Ice? Well you probably wouldn't have took it like a regular person but I hate to say this but well, I took it. Reluctantly, I took the ice thing from his hand and studied it.
//Cool right?//
Ok so, this guy was telling me that a small piece of ice was 'cool'.
//I found it in the store and thought it looked cool so I 'brought' it home//
I didn't like the way he said 'brought' but I let him keep speaking.
//Do you wanna try it?//
I almost had a heart attack. Right when he said that, he turned into the most hideous thing ever. I was about to inform him how ugly he looked but then I woke up.
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I woke up in a cold sweat, hyperventilating. I had TONS of questions. Who was that guy? Where was I? ''Who am I?'' [[Next -> What do I do now?]]
I tried to shake the image out my mind. I couldn't go back to sleep, could I? I could, unless I wanted to see //that// again. As I tried to wash my mind, I was starting to doubt wether or not I should go back to sleep. There was nothing to do in this boring, old tower anyways.
//Bob!//
What? He- that //person//. He was here. But how? I hated that man. Always haunting my life. Every second of the day, every day of the week. I balled my fists. I couldn't take him anymore.
"Come out here!" I shouted. "I hate you!"
I swung my hands and the walls. I hated everything. I hate myself.
The walls crumbled. Bits and pieces fell off.
"I just want to die..." I whispered. Almost on the verge of crying.
I slid my back down the wall only to see him appear right there, again.
//Come here! Look what I found!//
"JUST. LEAVE. ME. ALONE."
What did he want from me? What was happening with //me//?
[[sleep -> Why can't I sleep?]]
[[stay awake ->I get cavities]]
[[cry -> Am I dying?]]
I laid down on my bed, face down. My blanket so soft, my pillows just right and the room pitch black, not a single speck of light in sight. This would've been the perfect condition for sleeping conditions but I've been awake for 6 hours. I thought to myself //man, I could've done so many things in 6 hours. But no worries, I'll fall asleep soon//. I start to count the hours.
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I've been awake for 8 hours. 8 HOURS.
I tried harder to sleep but I can't. I closed my eyes my lids urge to open. I force them to close, I force myself to sleep. I start thinking about a delicous, chocolate muffin. Thinking about things always make me sleep better. I knew I laid down about 8 hours ago and I started sleeping at about what? 9:00? Now that I was thinking about it, I had no idea what time it was, or when I started sleeping.
//BRRRIINNNNGGGGG!//
My alarm. MY ALARM. How long have I been awake?
[[Continue sleeping -> Am I a zombie?]]
[[Do something else -> Am I dying?]] I buried my head in my arms. Letting the tears stream down my face. Suddenly, I felt a tingly feeling in my mouth. It burnt like acid, but it didn't hurt. I opened my eyes and looked down only to find 3 rotten, brown teeth lying on my thighs.
"What the?"
4 teeth. Plop.
5 teeth.
6 teeth.
7 teeth.
Just as I was watching myself losing my teeth, I felt like I was floating. I hovered above the floor, hearing my stomach grumble. What was happening?
[[next ->I get sick]] I laid down on my bed.
Suddenly, my vision became blurry. I was having some trouble breathing but I dien't think it had anything to do with my bad eyesight. It was getting harder and harder to breathe by the second. I tried to inhale, only to have my breath pushed out again. All of my vision was a blur, I could see the lights on the ceiling above me. All turned off. I had to take short intakes of breath just to not die. Each breath lasting less than a second. My lungs closed, my nose felt like a pathway just closed. It was like a war and the other side was winning. I was losing.
I took one last short breath when I felt my head fall back and my vision turn black. The last thing I saw were lights in the sky which made no sense whatsoever since I was in a pitch black room. With all the lights //off//.
[[The end ->The End.]]
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[[What this ending has to do with meth (lung damage)]]
[[Why do you think teenagers use this despite the dangers?]]
[[How could we prevent this?]]
[[Short and long-term effects of meth]]
[[Restart ->Introduction]] //Bob//
I felt nauseas. It felt like I the sea inside me was rising. Constantly hitting the shores for a way to escape the depths of the sea. The waves crash violently inside my body. Imagine there was a village inside your body, the village grew more and more hostile over years of being trapped inside. In frustration and anger, they start to tear your body pice by piece. Bones and flesh all being thrown away. Every second you grow more and more weak. Every second, you fear people judging you, staring at you. All your loved ones insist on saying the sea is a calm and light green, but all you can see is a dark shade of gray. You try to make yourself see the green but no matter what you do, you see the same thing. You tell yourself,
"This is me,"
The voice inside your head keeps saying
//Trust me, everyone else sees green. YOUR life depends on this. You won't ever fit in. Just try.//
[[try to see the green sea ->WHY. CAN'T. I. SEE. IT.]]
[[stay the same -> Ok]]
I've been awake for about a day now, or maybe 2? Although I've only been awake for a day or 2, it feels as if I've haven't been completely alive for months. If alive at all.
[[The end. ->The End.]]
[[If you didn't understand the concept ->concept]]
[[What this ending has to do with meth (Insomia)]]
[[Why do you think teenagers use this despite the dangers?]]
[[How could we prevent this?]]
[[Short and long-term effects of meth]]
[[Restart ->Introduction]] Ok so you may or may not have noticed that in the chapter "What?" (though you probably weren't paying attention to the chapter names), that there was an onomatopoeia going along the lines of crunch crunch all up in your face. When I wrote this, I wanted that to indicate that he was starting to use meth (the reason I made him crunch it was because I didn't know how it would sound if he injected it or inhaled it). This is why later on in the story he becomes like insane, and continuing on with the story will make him become progressively more crazy and insane (he also hallucinates). You can be able to connect some of the short and long-term effects of meth to the things that happen to Bob in the story. In the chapter "I. HATE. DREAMS." Bob goes to sleep and meets his friend. I think this is one of his other hallucinations and might also be tied in a little bit with his anorexia. It's like your conscience but bad. His little friend was telling him to try meth as I reffered to it as ice in the chapter. The reason this might be tied in with anorexia is because eating disorders usually start because your unhappy with the way you are and look, so his friend was talking inside his head and like telling him to do bad stuff. In the last paragraph of the chapter, Bob is confused and is asking questions. This is could also possibly be another effect of meth because it can damage your brain cells and cause some memory loss. In the chapter "What do I don now?", he gets mad at his hallucination friend dream thing and punches the walls and all that. Another effect of meth is violent behaviour so yeah. And when I pictured Bob, I certainly didn't imagine him as a violent or angry person. Now that's all I can say because I don't want to spoil the other ending even though you can already probably guess them.
[[Restart ->Introduction]]
[[Why do you think teenagers use this despite the dangers?]]
[[How could we prevent this?]]
[[Short and long-term effects of meth]] Ok so, in this ending Bob doesn't really die but he can't sleep. This implies that he's becoming an insomniac. That is a usually a long-term effect of meth. A short-term effect of meth is disturbed sleep patterns so this could also imply that Bob is doing meth.
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[[Restart ->Introduction]] I think teenagers mostly mostly use meth (or drugs in general) because of 2 main reasons: addiction and peer pressure. People mostly start because of peer pressure and people usually continue to use it because of addiction. Meth is supposed to make you feel more hyper and upbeat, this could also be a reason people start in the first place. Some people might also start because of stress and this could make them feel better. Over time, when they're more stressed, this could be their only solution to getting out of that state. Also people might not know about the dangers.
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[[Restart ->Introduction]] If you have a meth problem (or just a drug problem in general), you should talk to a trusted adult or a trained proffesional. Try to stay away from drugs for a while to help your addiction. Your parents might hold an intervention if you adiiction is deep. If your doimg drugs secretley, make sure you don't, tell your parents and other people (you trust). If you know a person who's thinking of starting drugs but not doing them yet, encourage them not to start. If they know the dangers they might not want to do it so if they don't know how dangerous drugs you can tell them. You should keep and eye on them or stay on their case to make sure. You also might be called a tattletail or whatever but be sure to inform their parents.
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[[Restart ->Introduction]]SHORT-TERM EFFECTS
-Loss of appetite
-Increased heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature
-Dilation of pupils
-Disturbed sleep patterns
-Nausea
-Bizarre, erratic, sometimes violent behavior
-Hallucinations, hyperexcitability, irritability
-Panic and psychosis
-Convulsions, seizures and death from high doses
LONG-TERM EFFECTS
-Permanent damage to blood vessels of heart and brain, high blood pressure leading to heart attacks, strokes and death
-Liver, kidney and lung damage
-Destruction of tissues in nose if sniffed
-Respiratory (breathing) problems if smoked
-Infectious diseases and abscesses if injected
-Malnutrition, weight loss
-Severe tooth decay
-Disorientation, apathy, confused exhaustion
-Strong psychological dependence
-Psychosis
-Depression
-Damage to the brain similar to Alzheimer’s disease,3 stroke and epilepsy
[[Why do you think teenagers use this despite the dangers?]]
[[How could we prevent this?]]
[[concept]] In the chapter "Am I dying?", Bob dies of suffocation, or because he fell. Depepnds which way you look at it. But one of the effects of meth is lung damage and you can have like breathing problems (just like when you smoke). So yes.
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[[Restart ->Introduction]] I tried my hardest to see the green sea. It was like you were swimming in an ocean. You try to get to the shore but each time you get close, the shore moves away. You've been doing this for hours now, maybe even days but you can never get to the shore. In saddness and dispair, you give up. You drown yourself under the water. You think to yourself //maybe I'll have a better life soon//. You stay under the water, you see the bubbles come out of your mouth. You close your eyes. //I'll be gone soon//.
"Want to commit double suicide with me?"
"What?"
"Nevermind."
way.
[[The end ->The End.]]
[[If you didn't understand the concept ->concept]]
[[What this ending has to do with meth ( anorexia and teeth problems)]]
[[Why do you think teenagers use this despite the dangers?]]
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[[Short and long-term effects of meth]]
[[Restart ->Introduction]] "No," I told myself "This is me. This is who I am."
I may not see what everyone else sees but I can't change who I am.
//You want to live your whole life feeling like a weirdo?//
"No," I whispered to myself. "I won't."
[[next ->yay]] In the end, Bob went to go see a therapist, went to go talk to some people he trusted, and he was fully healed. It turns out the problem was that he was on drugs. Slowly and slowly, he started to get better, tried to stay away.
[[The end ->The End.]]
[[If you didn't understand the concept ->concept]]
[[What this ending has to do with meth (anorexia and teeth problems)]]
[[Why do you think teenagers use this despite the dangers?]]
[[How could we prevent this?]]
[[Short and long-term effects of meth]]
[[Restart ->Introduction]] In the last few chapters, Bob's teeth fell out. This is a long termeffect of meth and is known as "meth mouth". It's when your teeth rot from the inside out and fall out and things like that. Bob also experiences a case of anorexia. He feels that he's different from everyone else (even though he livesin a tower nowhere to be seen) and is afraid people are judging him. But then he went to see a therapist and he's all fine now.
[[Short and long-term effects of meth]]
[[How could we prevent this?]]
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[[Restart ->Introduction]] In the last few chapters, Bob's teeth fell out. This is a long termeffect of meth and is known as "meth mouth". It's when your teeth rot from the inside out and fall out and things like that. Bob also experiences a case of anorexia. He feels that he's different from everyone else (even though he livesin a tower nowhere to be seen) and is afraid people are judging him.
[[Short and long-term effects of meth]]
[[How could we prevent this?]]
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[[Restart ->Introduction]]The End.
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